July, 1922 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



461 



HEADS OF GRAIN I g ftQl O Qi DIFFERENT FIELDS 



suggestion of evil, why, just put a sheet of 

 asbestos paper between the can and the 

 smoker furnace and then you will thank me 

 for this suggestion. W. E. Woodruff. 



Clemenceau, Ariz. 



Good Prospects White clover began to 

 in Iowa. bloom on May 22, owing 



to an abundance of mois- 

 ture in the ground. The prospects now are 

 good for a heavy flow from white clover. 



An abundance of both Hubam and bien- 

 nial sweet clover is planted in this vicin- 

 ity. There are fully 100 acres within two 

 and a half miles of me, planted mostly for 

 pasture, 



I never before saw so much brood in 

 hives in May, owing to a very heavy flow 

 from fruit and dandelion. Eeturning from 

 the hospital I found everything honey and 

 brood bound, and am only now getting 

 things straightened out. 



Honey prices are going to be a problem 

 the coming season, and it is not too early 

 to begin to adjust prices. I do not believe 

 there is any reason why honey should sell 

 for less than lOe a pound. I am still getting 

 20c retail. A. F. Bonney. 



Buckgrove, Iowa. 



Importance of It 's not so much the 

 Doing the Work amount of work done in 

 That Counts. the apiary but doing it in- 



telligently and at the 

 proper time tliat counts. Such things as 

 supplying more surplus room, introducing 

 young queens, giving the queens plenty of 

 combs to occupy, supplying plenty of stores 

 when needed and many more little details, 

 done intelligently and at the right time — 

 all these count. Young beekeepers are fast 

 coming to the front by observing the above 

 rules and doing things svstematicallv. 

 East Avon, N. Y. ' A. C. Gilbert. 



A Good Hive The best scraper I have ever 

 Scraper. tried for cleaning covers, 



bottoms, etc., is a common 

 three-cornered scraping tool used by butch- 

 ers in cleaning meat blocks. No two edges 

 have the same angle with the handle, so it 

 will push, thrust or pull and get into all cor- 

 ners. I. W. Cameron. 

 Davis, S. D. 



Simplified Queen-Rearing Here is an easy 

 at Close of Honey Flow. way to get a few- 

 good queens at 

 the close of the honey flow: Place a frame 

 witli a half sheet of foundation in the mid- 

 dle of tlie nucleus (or colony) liaving your 



best queen, leaving it there for one week. 

 Take out the frame, now filled with eggs 

 and young larvae, go t6 a strong colony 

 which has supers tiered up for extracting, 

 with a queen-excluder in place. Put the 

 frame with the eggs and young larvae in 

 the middle of the super and place the super 

 on the bottom-board, removing the brood- 

 chamber (old hive) to a new location. The 

 bees Avill rear some fine queen-cells which 

 should, of course, be cut out in time to 

 save them. Axel Hoist. 



St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. 



Wasp Nest Tliis wasp skyscraper was 



Taller Than a Man. found in the wilds of 

 Florida. The nest is six 

 and a half feet in height and ten and a half 

 feet in circumference. It is made of a ma- 

 terial closely resembling paper, which at a 

 short distance is hard to tell from clav. It 



apparently housed at tlie start about a hun- 

 dred colonies, as we killed about that many 

 queens. E. C. Sheafer. 



Sanford, Fla. 



[The number of queens would not prove 

 the number of colonies, since among the so- 

 cial wasps, the males and workers die in tlie 

 fall and only the queens survive the winter. 

 Accordingly in the fall there would be many 

 queens in a colony. — Editor.] 



